conrad@wucs.UUCP (Conrad Cunningham) (07/16/86)
Discussions on "favorite" operating systems are seldom rational--the participants "patriotism" usually gets in the way of clear judgment. :-) Of the operating system command languages that I have used during the past eight years--Unix (csh on 4.2 bsd and sh on an old v6? pdp system, neither extensively), Tops-20, Harris VOS, and VMS--I can't say that any are are "absolutely great" or "lousy". All have good features and bad. I probably like Tops-20 the best--especially when combined with a programmable exec like the PCL-exec from CMU--but it had few things that I didn't like. But my appreciation for Tops may just be nostalgia--it was the first system that I really "sank my teeth into". Conrad Cunningham Department of Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis